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“A new report from Democracy Forward, The Second Front: The Escalating Right-Wing Legal Threats Beyond the White House, reveals the perilous threats to American democracy represented by the far-right legal movement. The report, part of Democracy Forward’s work to track the far-right legal movement, focuses attention on ways that extremists continue to deprive Americans of …
The Daily Docket – A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw: “Reuters uncovered a broader‑than‑previously known Trump administration effort to gain federal control over elections, historically run locally, in at least eight states – using investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID. What happened In January, a DHS agent sought unredacted …
The Developer: “The newly unsealed indictment against former FBI Director James Comey shows the Justice Department has charged him with two counts tied to his May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as “86 47.” The case was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina and names Comey as “James Brien Comey Jr.” Read the full indictment …
Dean Blundell: “The $400 Million Question: Was Trump’s “Privately Funded” Ballroom Always Headed for Your Wallet? On July 31, 2025, Donald Trump made a promise. He was going to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the East Wing of the White House — a venue grand enough for state dinners, presidential inaugurations, and the kind of …
Reuters: “As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line. These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled, opens new tab this year that the …
Daily Beast – no paywall: “A federal judge is holding up Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury Department until his lawyers can convince her it’s legal for a president to take his own federal agencies to court for money. Trump is the ultimate boss of the agencies he’s suing, so …
The Atlantic Gift Article: “Donald Trump’s advisers are treating him like he can’t handle the reality of the war in Iran. They might be right—but that fact is a danger to the constitutional order…Earlier this month, top officials in the Trump administration were facing two problems—one distant and acute, one near and chronic. The first …
Follow-up to Banquet of Greed: Trump Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors – See Washington Post – no paywall: “The agreement governing hundreds of millions in private donations was kept secret until a watchdog group sued and a judge ordered it disclosed [the full text of this document is embedded in this WaPo …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Rulings with no explanation or reasoning, like the sparse paragraph from that February night, have become routine. The emergency docket is now a central legacy of the court led by Chief Justice Roberts.” How dramatically will that legacy change our legal system and our country? Only the Shadow knows…Just after …
The New York Times, Gift Article: Trump Administration Takes Steps to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs. “…When President Trump unveiled his sprawling global tariffs last spring, he boasted that they would generate windfall profits and “make America wealthy again.” But after suffering a significant Supreme Court defeat, Mr. Trump is about to pay the money …
Internet Archive Blogs: “Thanks to a generous gift of materials from the Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School, and the Internet Archive’s mission to digitize and provide universal access to knowledge, we are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two …
Last month, President Trump issued a second executive order aiming to single-handedly rewrite federal election rules. The Brennan Center and other groups are challenging the action in court, as the Constitution gives only the states and Congress the power to regulate elections. Among other things, the order attempts to require the U.S. Postal Service — …
